Gallery›Wellcome Collection›A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a sucessful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken after himself.
A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a sucessful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken after himself.
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A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a sucessful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken after himself.

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Lettering: Ian Luyken invenit et fecit. ; Copy of old print showing method of extracting guinea worm.

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